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The outpouring of grief and solidarity in the aftermath of the Westminster terrorist attack has provided westerners with some modicum of hope, but such reactions are not universal, with many pointing to the lack of response to attacks elsewhere.

Sean Spicer destroys reporter for trying to cite a story that accuses Donald Trump of collusion with Russia and interfering with Nunes' investigation. This was during the White House press briefing live.

A new report from the top UN official in Pyongyang is warning that the growing array of international sanctions against North Korea is having a serious deleterious impact on humanitarian aid shipments, saying they are facing a “radical decline” in donations because of sanctions fear.

In addition to the fear of accidentally violating sanctions with such donations of food, there is considerable diplomatic pressure not to feed the North Koreans, with South Korea’s government arguing that the North Korean government is using money not used on food for missile tests.

While that is true, North Korea’s government doesn’t appear to be interested in spending the money on food either way, and the UN is warning that about 41% of the population is undernourished at this point, with young children suffering from the most chronic malnutrition.

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The starvation of children, allegedly to "soften a country up" for invasion and/or occupation, is not a new tool of the West; the US and Saudi Arabia have been very effectively causing Yemeni kids to die of malnutrition over these last two years, courtesy of shutting down all Yemeni ports, so food cannot get in. Here's what THAT looks like:

In the past few months, US officials have increasingly found it convenient to blame Russia for anything that goes wrong, no matter how little credibility such an accusation has. NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander, US Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti, may have gone the farthest, however, saying that it was conceivable that Russia was providing unspecified “supply” to the Afghan Taliban.

Gen. Scaparrotti told the Senate Armed Services Committee that he had “seen the influence of Russia of late,” and that “perhaps” this included supplies, though he neither offered any details on what sort of supplies he was accusing Russia of “perhaps” giving the Taliban, nor any evidence that anything he said was true.

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Gen. Scaparrotti, a word, please; trying to blame the nearly 16 year old, utterly failed US/NATO occupation on Russia, and providing absolutely no evidence with which to support your claim, is, shall we say diplomatically, completely counter-productive.

Pentagon reported that Vectrus Systems had received a more than half a billion dollar US Army contract to provide services for Kuwait base operations.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – Vectrus Systems has received a more than half a billion dollar US Army contract to provide services for Kuwait base operations and security support, the Department of Defense said in a press release.

"Vectrus Systems Corporation [of] Colorado Springs, Colorado, was awarded a $521 million modification… contract for services for Kuwait base operations and security support services in the Kuwait area of responsibility," the announcement stated on Thursday.

So, if the US government is beefing up these bases now, and Kuwait is a place for power projection into the Persian Gulf, and construction is supposed to be completed in March of next year, what is the US military planning for the spring of 2018?!?

I do not know; but my gut is telling me, something wicked this way comes.

Gun Owners of America (GOA) is warning that House Speaker Paul Ryan’s Obamacare 2.o still contains measures that will allow doctors, insurance companies, and the ATF to use medical records to further a gun control agenda.
The first thing GOA points out is that Ryan’s bill “needs to be amended to prohibit the ATF from trolling the national health database, or Medicaid, or any new entitlement program for persons with PTSD, Alzheimer’s, ADHD, or merely ‘anxiety.’” GOA says the recently repealed Social Security gun ban allowed such trolling, which opened the door to the ATF growing the list of the persons prohibited from gun ownership based on otherwise private information gathered from health records.

Guides to mounting a car terror attack were available on Google and Twitter last night.

The vile manuals were online despite widespread warnings that UK jihadists use them for training.

Fanatics are urged to deploy large vehicles as ‘tools of war’ before going on a stabbing rampage – the template for Wednesday’s atrocity in Westminster. Boris Johnson accused social media websites of inciting terrorism.

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What this man did was horrific, hideously immoral, and inexcusable.

But the bigger question that this article in the dailymail.co.uk did not want to answer is, why did this man become so radicalised, to the point where he felt he had no other possible response to his anger but the slaughter of innocents, who had done him utterly no wrong whatsoever?!?

I think that, at least, part of the answer to this is the way American, and Western foreign policy has been conducted for quite some time.

The US government, as does the UK's, has a pathological appetite for militarily subduing parts of the planet with the resources it wants; expropriating those resources to which it has no moral right; insuring that the leadership in the countries from which they are being extracted is Western-centric; then insuring that those resources are only sold for the US dollar.

And those living in the countries where this is happening, who do not see this arrangement as being good and positive for the citizens of that country?!?! They get assassinated with extrajudicial assassination drone strikes, which have killed thousands of innocents; children, women, and the medically fragile elderly.

The US and British governments, collectively, cannot say with a straight face that there is no blood on their hands through its military misadventures in places like Yemen; Syria; Africa; Iraq; and Afghanistan, to get those resources it believes that further wars will require. And this, too, is horrific, hideously immoral, and inexcusable.

But they wrap these wars in a cheap, Chinese-made flag of patriotism, and tell the kids going off to fight them, that these wars are about duty; honor; courage and defending their "way of life", when these wars are ultimately only about improving the corporate profits of those companies involved in the military/industrial complex, and expropriating foreign resources through more wars of conquest.

When Karl Marx made the observation that all wars are economic, he was definitely on to something.

So what is ultimately to be done here?!?

I have a very lovely, bright, and spiritually clear first cousin, about 20 years my senior, who is a professor emeritus of Constitutional Law for a major university.

He says that by the US and the UK government spent a fraction of the money it has spent on these horrific wars, many of which the US military is still finds itself enmeshed, and spent it on the development of workable alternative energy which actually can drive a tank, or power an airplane, or a rocket, this would make these wars of conquest unnecessary and irrelevant.

I think my first cousin is entirely right; if the US and UK really want to stop terrorism dead in its tracks, they must stop mucking about in other peoples' countries, and not create the fury and radicalisation over 3rd world exploitation which can manifest like this horrific attack at London's Parliament.

But if the US and UK do not do this kind of development of alternative energy, so that we are not dependent on fossil fuel into the future, then you have to realize that, to those elites in both governments, attacks like this against their hapless citizens, against which these governments cannot protect against, are simply "the cost of doing business", and these damned, perpetual wars will continue, as will the rage that will continue to manifest as murderous violence against both their soldiers in country, and against our citizens.

During his meeting with French National Front leader Marine Le Pen at the Kremlin on Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Moscow has no intentions to influence the French elections but reserves the right to meet any French politicians it wishes.

In recent years, the parents of Jared Kushner, the son-in-law and trusted confidant of US President-elect Donald Trump, have donated tens of thousands of dollars to organisations and institutions located in illegal West Bank settlements, according to their tax forms.

Kushner’s family donates a few million dollars a year on average to charitable causes through the Charles and Seryl Kushner Foundation, which Jared sits on the board of along with his brother and two sisters. The foundation was established in 1997.Another key beneficiary of Kushner charity in Israel is the Israeli army. Between 2011 and 2013, the foundation donated a total of $315,000 to Friends of the IDF, on whose board Jared serves.

Most countries consider Israeli settlements, built on land captured in the 1967 Middle East war, to be illegal. Israel disagrees.

The Trump administration reiterated its concerns about Israeli settlement activity, the two sides said on Thursday, as a round of talks ended without agreement over limiting future construction on land the Palestinians want for a state.

The four days of high-level meetings in Washington marked the latest step by President Donald Trump’s aides aimed at opening the way to renewed peace diplomacy between Israel and the Palestinians, despite deep skepticism in the United States and Middle East over the chances for success.

Trump’s Middle East envoy, Jason Greenblatt, who recently returned from a visit to the region, led the U.S. delegation in what were described as “intensive discussions” with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s chief of staff Yoav Horowitz and foreign policy adviser Jonathan Schachter.

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Notice how that mainstream corporate presstitutes have been ignoring these meetings as though they represented the plague itself.

And President Trump, a word, please.

Exercises in futility will not bring credibility to your foreign policy

Israel has demonstrated, since its inception, that it is pathologically incapable of being a good neighbor to any of the countries surrounding it, and also refuses to state, clearly, what the State of Israel's borders are, and that is because of the following reason.

This is because of their"vision" if you will, of creating what is called in Israel "Eretz Israel" or Greater Israel, which will run from the Nile to the Euphrates.Let's take a look at a map, and see what bits and pieces of other countries have to be ceded in order to make that happen:

We've got hunks of Jordan; Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt and Saudi Arabia which will have to go in order for Israel to accomplish this; and these countries won't let that happen without a fight.

And so, what is Israel doing right now to claim more territory closer to home, and by any means necessary?!?

It is practicing serial genocide against the Palestinians; it has ramped up a brisk annexation program in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, throwing out Palestinians whose families have lived in those homes for generations.

This is the country which will not declare it is a nuclear armed country, even though it is; will not sign the NNPT (which, I might add, Iran has done), and refuses to have its nuclear weapons inspected.

This is the country which attempted to frame Egypt for the deliberate Israeli attack against the USS Liberty; this is the country which cheer-led the disastrous US military attack against Iraq (because it was an alleged "existential threat" against Israel, because of its great standard of living under Saddam Hussein), and continues to advocate for a US-led military strike against Iran (again, because it is an alleged "existential threat" to Israel). This is the country bombing Syria, unprovoked, and uninvited, in order to attempt to accomplish regime change there.

President Trump, it is time to cut your losses with Israel, and move on to something that can truly be accomplished; and unfortunately, a just and lasting peace between Israel and the Palestinians will only happen after pigs have discovered the ability to fly.

The appropriately named Anthony Weiner, whose wiener has already gotten him in quite a bit of trouble over the years, just can’t seem to learn from his mistakes. In his latest escapade, the now disgraced 43-year old former Congressman had been sending highly explicit texts to a 15 year old girl, detailing his sick rape fantasies to her. As a result, his laptop and other devices were seized by the NYPD, and he may be facing child pornography charges. But information on the laptop revealed something much bigger than Weiner’s wiener.

In the following video, Right Wing News looks deeper than just Anthony Weiner’s perverted activities; information on the laptop showed that Hillary Clinton was well aware of Weiner’s continued exploitation of the minor during the election, but chose to keep silent. Why? Because the “champion of women” was more concerned about getting elected than helping stop the abuse of a 15 year old girl who was known to be having suicidal thoughts.

Republicans have not postponed a vote in the House of Representatives to repeal and replace Obamacare. This decision was taken mid-Thursday after the conservative Freedom Caucus members said that they couldn’t get behind the package.

In yesterday’s post, Credibility of Cyber Firm that Claimed Russia Hacked the DNC Comes Under Serious Question, I examined how CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity firm hired by the DNC to look into its hacking breach, had been exposed as being completely wrong about a separate attack it claimed originated from the same group it claimed broke into DNC systems, and supposedly works for Russia’s military intelligence unit, GRU. Here’s some of what we learned:

An influential British think tank and Ukraine’s military are disputing a report that the U.S. cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike has used to buttress its claims of Russian hacking in the presidential election.

The whole things gets even more disturbing the more you look.

For example, Counterpunch put out a very important article earlier today on the topic, adding several crucial nuggets of information.

First there’s this:

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The bottom line here, as far as I can see, is that there is no "there" there, in terms of Russian hacking of the 2016 election.

Is it possible to arrest an unarmed homeless person without destroying the residence he's hiding in? To the Fresno County Sheriff's Department and Clovis PD (and far too many other law enforcement agencies), the question remains rhetorical.

David Jessen's farmhouse felt the full, combined force of two law enforcement agencies and all their toys last June. According to his lawsuit [PDF], a homeless man was rousted from a nearby vacant house after he was discovered sleeping in the closet. He left peacefully but was soon spotted by the construction crew breaking into Jessen's house. The construction worker, god bless him, called the police because he thought they could help.

Now, the officers might have been concerned the homeless person had armed himself with one of Jessen's weapons, despite his assurances they were well-hidden/unloaded. Even so, they had plenty of options available that didn't include doing all the things they did instead.

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This was not about "to protect and serve'; this was about "to search and destroy with impunity", and it appeared that the local cops did this with the sure and certain knowledge that they had the right to create as much property damage as they possibly could.

Over the last 20+ years, America has applied the nebulous term ‘rogue state’ with a bit of impunity.

So when discussing what makes a rogue state, it is better to construct a new, more neutral definition than rely on the American application of the word to any state which doesn’t dance to the NATO/US tune.

Let us define a rogue sate as: a state whose government pursues unilateral aggressive policies which result in the country’s sudden or gradual isolation from regional neighbours, former allies and those beyond.

But what about Turkey? Turkey is a great state, a powerful state, and a regionally important state with an economy to be reckoned with, in spite of recent downturns.

The man who served as former president George W Bush's most senior ethics lawyer has suggested that the FBI is "uncovering evidence of treason" by far right US news websites over their links with Russia.

Richard Painter tweeted a link to an article suggesting that the Bureau was looking into news outlets like Breitbart News, InfoWars and the Kremlin-backed RT News and Sputnik News, to see whether they worked with Russian-backed operatives to disseminate stories favouring Donald Trump during the presidential election. at times when his campaign appeared to be struggling.

Sources told US publisher, McClatchy that online "bots" had created created millions of social media posts linking to articles on the sites, some of which were completely false, while other contained a mixture of fact and fiction.

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This strikes me as desperation on the cusp of madness.

I have linked to all the resources indicated above, when I have been able to vet that the information came from multiple sources, and believed, to the best of my knowledge, that the information presented was factually based.

But when it becomes, "alleged treason" to tell the truth, the best you can, on a blog, you know your government has gone full tilt-boogie Orwell on you.

And that George Bush even had an "ethics layer", in his lying about the reasons reasons the US government had to war in Afghanistan and Iraq, is hysterically hypocritical, and worth a great laugh, but Richard Painter CANNOT expect to be taken seriously by any thinking American on these charges, after the dark, and brutal, legacy of Bush's presidency.

So now, this now thoroughly embarrassed, morally bankrupt, and completely irrelevant man is desperately attempting to forward the US Deep State Narrative of Russia being the "bad guy" in the geopolitical arena, and a country the US government and military needs to wagewar against.

I have to wonder just how much of Painter's stock portfolio is invested in companies which comprise the US Military/Industrial Complex, to make these accusations.

– take note how much glyphosate, the key active herbicide-killing ingredient in Roundup® made by Monsanto, is found in vaccines given to infants, toddlers, teens and adults! Cancers are the number two killer of kids between 1 and 14 years of age...

This is why the Deep State is fracturing: its narratives no longer align with the evidence.

As this chart from Google Trends illustrates, interest in the Deep State has increased dramatically in 2017. The term/topic has clearly moved from the specialist realm to the mainstream. I've been writing about the Deep State, and specifically, the fractures in the Deep State, for years.

Amusingly, now that "Progressives" have prostituted themselves to the Security Agencies and the Neocons/Neoliberals, they are busy denying the Deep State exists. For example, There is No Deep State (The New Yorker).

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It is very simple; after Bush's "j'accuse" against Saddam Hussein, that he had alleged "weapons of mass destruction" to sell the invasion and occupation of Iraq, no one can take ANYTHING the Federal Government says seriously any more.

The great lies have been unmasked; US citizens realise that all wars are economic in nature, and the American people have become war-weary, and war-skeptical.

Our alleged "Congressional Representatives" no longer represent We the People; they represent the interests only of those large corporations which fund their campaigns.

Voters have become...irrelevant, as long as those campaign coffers remain full.

An investigative reporting coalition recently released a report alleging a multi-billion dollar money laundering operation that has affected hundreds of banks and companies in 96 countries including the repeat offender, HSBC.
In 2012, HSBC, one of the world’s largest banks, settled with the U.S. Government, avoiding criminal prosecution of its executives, for helping to launder money for Mexican drug cartels as well as Al Qaeda. According to the US Senate’s report, which investigated the matter, HSBC provided a “gateway for terrorists to gain access to U.S. dollars and the U.S. financial system.”

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Hey, this is SOP (standard operating procedures) for the TBTF (too big to fail) banks; I'm not surprised, and unless and until the executives who signed off on these actions get prosecuted and jailed (and I am talking about hard time, and NOT a "Club Fed"), such practices will continue.

When all prosecutors like Lynch do is a slap on the wrist, through fines, and not prosecuting individuals who thought these kinds of actions were "a good idea" persist, nothing will change.

Additionally, the rich very rarely eat their own; I do not know what the lady's net worth may be, but I don't think she left her position as Attorney General a pauper

According to a federal appeals court, police will not be held accountable for banging on the wrong door at 1:30 am, failing to identify themselves as police, and then repeatedly shooting and killing the innocent homeowner who answered the door while holding a gun in self-defense. Although 26-year-old Andrew Scott had committed no crime and never fired a single bullet or lifted his firearm against police, he was gunned down by police who were investigating a speeding incident by engaging in a middle-of-the-night “knock and talk” in Scott’s apartment complex.

In ruling in favor of qualified immunity for police, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has given law enforcement agencies further incentives to engage in aggressive “knock and talk” practices, which have become thinly veiled, warrantless exercises by which citizens are coerced and intimidated into “talking” with heavily armed police who “knock” on their doors in the middle of the night.

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Assassinating ordinary citizens by police has become the order of the day, and this decision highlights the reality that now, police the right to do this with impunity.

This was a truly lousy ruling, in terms of siding with true justice in the United States, and demonstrates, very clearly, that US jurisprudence is rapidly slouching down the road of Code Napoleon law, where individual citizens were considered guilty until proven innocent.

Since Donald Trump’s election, former Special FBI Agent Coleen Rowley has been alarmed over with how Democratic hawks, neocons and other associates in the “deep state” have obsessed over “resurrecting the ghost of Joseph McCarthy” and have built political support for a permanent war policy around hatred of Russia.

Rowley, whose 2002 memo to the FBI Director exposed some of the FBI’s pre-9/11failures, compared the current anti-Russia hysteria to “the

‘Red Scare’ fear of Communism” famously associated with legendary FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover who collaborated with Sen. Joe McCarthy’s hunt for disloyal Americans in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

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This hatchet job on both Trump and Russia has got to end, so that this country can get the REAL, and pressing problems it faces sorted, like illegal immigration; the crumbling of America's infrastructure, and a military which spends huge sums of money for equipment and services it buys, but doesn't get very much "bank" for its buck, at the end of the day.

A magician would call this McCarthy-esque "witch hunt" against both Trump and Russia "misdirection"; taking the focus of what they are doing, and placing that focus somewhere else.

In two rooms of Charles and Lois O’Brien’s modest home in Tucson, Arizona, more than a million insects – a collection worth an estimated $10m – rest in tombs of glass and homemade shelving. They come from every continent and corner of the world, gathered over almost six decades; a bug story that began as a love story.

An 18-year-old Texas woman's claim that she was kidnapped and sexually assaulted was all a hoax, police say.
Breana Harmon Talbott ignited a sense of fear and outrage in the Denison community, as well as on social media, after she said three black men in ski masks were responsible for kidnapping her, taking her into the woods, and raping her.

(*first of all , the article originated from the anti Trump fake NEWS outlet The Wall Street Journal , so there's no varifying the legitimacy of this header
Trump is surrounded by Democrats , disingenuous Republicans , and there has to be somebody else who picked those GoldmanSachs advisors , in case there is any truth to the claim that The People's Man siding with the corporate planners of the Canadian Keystone Pipeline project , because; it's a No Brainer , Trump said he wants to put America first , and he would never ever put a Canadian Corporate Project over the interests Of The American People , EVER!)

One of the reasons that the DC pedophile rings have been able to operate unhindered for so long is the disbelief of the American public. Any attempt to expose the existence of this ring is more often than not met with derision and laughter, as if pedophiles in DC were the equivalent of the belief in a flat earth. However, word is slowly but surely spreading and today more and more people are realizing that these corrupted perverts have indeed placed themselves in high places.

It’s been decried as ‘fake news’ for far too long at the expense of putting our children at risk. Finally, some in the mainstream are catching on to one of the plagues of Washington today – the DC pedophile rings. Media personality Dr. Phil conducted an interview with a former child sex slave under these pedophile rings, and disturbing doesn’t even begin to describe her story. Read on with caution.

In the following video, Right Wing News looks at the utterly disgusting and horrifying reality that these pedophile rings force upon children. The victim, Kendall, in addition to recounting the countless abuses perpetrated upon her, specifically mentions being passed around groups of rich and prominent men as her earliest memories. Even more shocking, her parents had sold her to the ring at birth, and she definitely isn’t the only one.

When will the public be made aware of this problem so the corrupting and perverted influence of these pedophiles can be wiped out once and for all?

With the attack in London yesterday the season of sacrifice has begun. Take the time to listen to this broadcast about this time period of the year. Pay attention to all of the events that have happened in this time period over the years. It's a pattern that can be clearly seen when one's eyes are open to it. Remember ladies and gentlemen, it does not matter if you believe in this, the powers that shouldn't be do. To have any chance of winning a battle one must fully understand the opponent.

***FROM THE SHOW DESCRIPTION***

On this edition of DTRH Popeye welcomes back to the broadcast close friend, and occulted knowledge specialist Mark Passio. The two of them cover “The Season of Sacrifice” that takes place every year in the beginning of April, it’s origins, and what it means to the powers that shouldn't be. They showcase how many different tragedies have happened during this time period.

President Trump said during the campaign that he would put people on the Supreme Court that would overrule Roe V. Wade and give abortion rights to the states. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC.) asked Gorsuch if Trump asked Gorsuch if he would overturn Roe V. Wade.

Chelsea Clinton is set to receive a Lifetime Impact award from Variety magazine and Lifetime next month, though it is unclear why.

The former first daughter will be honored at a “Power of Women” luncheon on April 21, Variety announced. Jessica Chastain, Gayle King, Blake Lively, Audra McDonald and Shari Redstone will also receive the awards.

Clinton, a 37-year-old mother of two, is receiving the award “for her work with Alliance for a Healthier Generation, which empowers kids to develop lifelong healthy habits,” Variety says in a statement.

When you are constantly barraged with news of the “obesity epidemic” it’s easy to think Americans are guzzling themselves to death with sugar and aspartame-laden drinks. But it looks like an eye-opening critical mass has taken place. For the first time in modern memory Americans chose bottled water over soda pop…

Alexander Acosta is facing questions over plea deal he oversaw for pedophile
Billionaire sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein, pleaded guilty in 2008 to Florida charges of soliciting prostitution and was sentenced to 18 months in prison
Lawsuit questions why Acosta, whose confirmation hearing is this week, cut deal with Epstein a decade ago instead of pursuing a federal indictment
Acosta defended decisions as best outcome given evidence available at the time

A 19-year-old Jewish teenager with dual Israeli-American citizenship was arrested Thursday by Israeli police as the "main suspect in a wave of bomb threats against Jewish community centers in the United States," the AP reports.

President Trump was viciously attacked in February for suggesting the threats may have been a false flag to "make people look bad."

Lawrence Davidson views the UN’s moral failure, shown by its withdrawal of a report on Israeli apartheid, and examines the false utterances by the New York Times and the Trump administration on this issue.>>

I used to joke that one thing good about driving a 17-year old Honda (aside from no electronics the CIA/NSA can mess with, and being totally paid off) was that no car thief in their right mind would steal it.

Turns out I was wrong.

Our car was stolen last night (may the thieves spend eternity in hell with several venereal diseases)!

HPD has a BOLO out, but I would like to ask our Oahu readers to keep an eye out for a dark green four-door Honda civic, license PPJ336. It has tinted side-windows, a white Apple Computer sticker on the rear window and a radar detector on the inside of the windshield.

Thanks.

UPDATE: HPD just called. They think they have found the car.

UPDATE 2: WE HAVE OUR CAR BACK! Some damage, but running. Oddly enough, the trunk is filled with bags of recycled bottles and cans. Trying to figure that one out!

A New York State judge on Wednesday ordered ExxonMobil to turn over a year’s worth of emails it now admits it lost from an alias account used by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson when he was CEO of the company—a “bombshell” revelation, according to a lawyer for New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who’s investigating the oil giant’s climate cover-up.

The Democratic Party has a leadership vacuum at the top, with many registered voters eager to see someone who is not currently on the scene become the party’s standard-bearer in 2020, according to a new Harvard-Harris Poll survey provided exclusively to The Hill. When registered voters were asked whom they view as the leader of the Democratic Party, 40 percent said it has no leader.

Our value is founded on a unique and deep understanding of risks, vulnerabilities, mitigations, and threats. Domestic Surveillance plays a vital role in our national security by using advanced data mining systems to "connect the dots" to identify suspicious patterns.

The liberal establishment has been after conservative websites since Hillary Clinton was shellacked in last year’s presidential election. Democrats and the liberal media have not accepted the electoral thumping. Instead there is a war against any conservative voice who supported candidate Donald Trump.

More than 3,500 retail stores are going to close all across America over the next few months as the worst retail downturn in U.S. history gets even deeper. Earlier this week, Sears shocked the world when it announced that there is “substantial doubt” that the company will be able to “continue as a going concern” much longer. In other words, Sears has announced that it is on the verge of imminent collapse. Meanwhile, Payless stunned the retail industry when it came out that they are preparing to file for bankruptcy. The “retail apocalypse” that I have been warning about is greatly accelerating, and many believe that this is one of the early warning signs that the economic collapse that is already going on in other parts of the globe will soon reach U.S. shores.

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Sears is the proverbial "canary in the coal mine."

When it is about to go under, we will probably see a tsunami of other retail establishments falling in its wake.

And online buying is not the villain here; people just don't have the expendable income with which to shop, and they are keeping a very close eye on credit card usage, now that the Fed has upped their rates.

In the wake of the terror attacks in England, France, Germany and elsewhere, can we finally admit that the war on terror is an utter and complete failure?

10 WAYS TO REDUCE TERRORISM

So if the war on terror has failed, what should we do to stop terrorists?

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This is a very logical, well- thought out, rational approach to the issue; but because it is logical, the US government will not pay absolutely zero attention to it, because it prefers to do the most ham-fistedly, pig-headedly stupid things it can to keep terrorism continuing.

And why?!?

Because of the profits terrorism creates for the military/industrial complex, and for the banks, and the ability of terroristic acts to create fear in their people, so that they are easily manipulated to give up more of their freedoms and liberties!!

Karl Marx said some very odd things, and the main critique I have of communism, is that it takes all of society to be living saints to actually make it work; and in this lifetime, I have seen very few living saints.

But when he made the point that all wars were, ultimately, economic in their origin, he was one hundred percent correct.

So I have to ask, about the terrible attack in London at Parliament yesterday, cui bono?!? Who benefits?!? And how many more draconian laws are going to be placed against British subjects, and how much more of whatever freedoms they have left will be taken away, in its wake?!?

On March 20, David Rockefeller died at the age of 101. As the obituaries for one of the world’s richest men gush over his philanthropy, it needs to be pointed out that he was a major player in several Latin American coups, supported extremely corrupt military dictatorships, post-dictatorship neoliberal policies that greatly exacerbated income stratification and poverty and that his dark legacy will continue to influence the region long after his death.

The Rockefellers’ arrival in Brazil

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This man had a very dark legacy, no matter his what his philanthropic profile looked like!!

Documents recently dredged from the CIA’s massive database expose an effort by the former director to destroy documents evincing the agency’s illegal activities and operations.

That director — George H.W. Bush, who served in the role from January 1976 until January 1977 — went on to become the 41st President of the United States.

As MuckRock reports,

“In 1976, Congresswoman Bella Abzug wrote to CIA Director George H.W. Bush about the existing moratorium on the destruction of CIA files. As the Chairwoman of the Subcommittee on Government Information and Individual Rights, which had jurisdiction over government information policy including FOIA and the Privacy Act, she wanted the moratorium extended — specifically, she wanted to ensure that Congress had time to enact legislation in response to the Church, Pike, and Rockefeller hearings and the resulting reports.”

“Civil forfeiture laws represent one of the most serious assaults on private property rights in the nation today. Under civil forfeiture, police and prosecutors can seize your car or other property, sell it and use the proceeds to fund agency budgets—all without so much as charging you with a crime. Unlike criminal forfeiture, where property is taken after its owner has been found guilty

Senator John McCain (R-AZ) told MSNBC’s Greta Van Susteren that he doesn’t even know where to begin after House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes delivered proof to the President Donald Trump at the White House Wednesday afternoon, which shows that he and his associates were indeed surveilled in late 2016 – early 2017.

America's public education system is failing the citizens of Detroit, where the Detroit Regional Workforce Fund reports that 47% of people in Detroit are illiterate. In nearby suburbs, up to one-third are functionally illiterate.
The report, titled "Addressing Detroit's Basic Skills Crisis" makes the problem seem as intractible as the Flint water crisis that is about to hit its third anniversary.

Director Karen Tyler-Ruiz described that level of illiteracy to WWJ: "Not able to fill out basic forms, for getting a job — those types of basic everyday (things). Reading a prescription; what’s on the bottle, how many you should take… just your basic everyday tasks."

Various estimates of the scale of need for basic skills services in the region convey a crisis-level order of magnitude.

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Absoflippinglutely unbelievable; but of course, illiterate and innumerate people are incapable of critical thinking, or "doing the math", when it comes to politicians manipulating them, and politicians love it when people cannot do either.

I would suggest that this failure of the Detroit educational system is not accidental, but deliberately institutional.

So I can absolutely imagine that the local, state, and Federal politicians, looking at these numbers, are rejoicing at what they see!!

Parents in Detroit and elsewhere, whose kids are going to public schools, please do NOT count on your schools to educate your children, because most likely, THEY WILL NOT. Horrifically bad teachers will not be removed because of union protection.

Start reading to your kids, getting them reading as well, and start them on simple math, TODAY. Start a club, or a group, which does this after school, and make it fun!!

I was enormously lucky, in many aspects to have been born into the family I was. Language, and reading, were very strongly stressed by my parents, and when I was in high school, my Dad took me to EVERY Shakespeare play done at the local community college, as if to tell me, "The English language is your heritage, my dear; LEARN IT AND USE IT WELL!!"

The latest leaks from WikiLeaks' Vault 7 is titled “Dark Matter” and claims that the CIA has been bugging “factory fresh” iPhones since at least 2008 through suppliers. The full documents are expected to be released after a 10 a.m. EDT “press briefing” that WikiLeaks promoted on its Twitter.

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So, all by its lonesome, the CIA has decided to eviscerate the 4th Amendment to the Constitution; and the Judicial, Executive and Legislative portions of our government are collectively impotent to stop them?!?

Folks, here's the deal for me.

I am a Christian Witness/Pacifist Activist who never advocates violence as a response to anything this government doe, but exhorts her government to resolve its geopolitical disputes with negotiations rather than through war; I am a published composer of religious music, and a choral conductor at my local Methodist church.

So will someone please explain to me, in a way that seems reasonable, as a completely non-violent, loving, and logical human being, why I should be targeted for surveillance?!? Is the short answer, "Just because they CAN??"

And the really hysterical/ironic part of all this, is that the actual baddies have already encrypted cell and other communications to the point where they are "bullet-proof" to all of the US's "alphabet soup" intelligence agencies.

(*vindicating my personal point of view , when presented with Bush the second was delusional when he declared Mission Accomplished , in Iraq .
When looked at one way , yes! , he was as much a knucklehead , as Trump is naive .
My point of view is Bush was honest , for a change . After his dad made that mess , in the original Gulf War presented by the US Government, and CNN , the 'mission' , for Bush Jr. was to get us back IN , PERMANENTLY . making it easier for Tillerson amd Trump , to keep the thumb on those people .)

Just hours after revealing that members of the Trump transition team, as well as possibly the president himself, were under U.S. government surveillance following the election, House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes dropped another bombshell when he told reporters outside the White House that the FBI was not cooperating with his investigation into the wiretap claims.

A French national of North African origin has been arrested in the Belgian city of Antwerp on suspicion of driving at a crowd, officials say.
A car was driven "at high speed" on De Meir, the northern city's main shopping street, before it was intercepted. There were no reports of any injuries.
Knives, a non-lethal gun and some unidentifiable liquid were found in the car, prosecutors say.

Belgian PM Charles Michel praised the authorities for an "outstanding job".
The attack comes a day after a car was driven at high speed along London's Westminster Bridge, hitting many people, before the driver got out and entered the grounds of Parliament. He was killed after fatally stabbing a police officer there. Two other people died and 40 were injured in the attack.
It was also the day Belgium marked the first anniversary of the twin bomb attacks in Brussels, that killed 32 people.

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Thank God for how quickly the Antwerp police responded to this, to prevent any injuries.

My heart goes out to the family and friends of those slaughtered and wounded in yesterday's attack outside of London's Parliament; all of Europe must be very "nudgy" right now.

Cable news viewers were extremely interested in Monday’s House Intelligence Committee hearing. How do we know? Fox News viewership dropped significantly when the network cut away mid-way through the proceedings, while MSNBC and CNN, who continued their coverage, each saw a slight increase.

Another BAD appointment by Trump! Trump's appointee gave a serial child molester a pass!

President Donald Trump's labor secretary nominee is facing questions over the unusual plea deal he oversaw for billionaire sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein, while serving as US attorney in Miami.

Alexander Acosta made a deal with Epstein which meant he avoided federal prosecution and a potential life prison sentence when he was found guilty of soliciting prostitution in 2008.

He is now at the center of a lawsuit, which names President Donald Trump as a witness, which accuses him of mishandling the case a decade ago.

Critics, including attorneys for some underage victims of financier Epstein, claim the plea agreement was a 'sweetheart deal' made possible only by Epstein's wealth, connections and high-powered lawyers.

The story resurfaced just hours before his confirmation hearing for the secretary of labor was set to start.

So, I will not miss David Rockefeller. I suppose I should speak well of the dead, but I'm going to make an exception in this case. I don't want to lie. I am also not going to stay silent. He wasted his time. He wasted his money. He wasted his life. He was my favorite modern example of Mark 8:36. "For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?"

What’s In The GOP Health Care Bill? Some Good. Some Bad; One MAJOR Problem
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>Continuous coverage — 30 percent penalty if people don’t keep themselves insured
> Enrollment in expanded Medicaid will be frozen
> Medicaid will change to “per capita caps” (funding limits for each person) in the fiscal year 2020
>A new, refundable tax credit will be available in 2020 to help people buy health insurance
>It’s not means tested, but phased out for upper-income people (starting at $75,000 for individuals, $150,000 for familiesHere are some provisions that are out:
All Obamacare taxes
All Obamacare subsidies, including its premium tax credit
Individual, employer mandate penalties
“Cadillac tax” (until 2025)

There are problems with the bill as well. One area that doesn’t appear to be addressed adequately is the pre-existing condition provision.
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There is one major problem with the GOP approach, and that is the lack of a full repeal of The Affordable Care Act.>>>

One of the reasons Justice Scalia gave for rejecting as an interpretive tool the statements made by members of Congress when they passed any legislation under scrutiny is the truism that politicians have only one goal in their work, no matter what they are saying — to get re-elected. The senators examining Judge Gorsuch are probably more concerned with that than with doing the right thing for the court. I hope that in this respect, I am wrong, as I have been before.

Sean Spicer put an impatient White House reporter in his place today as he continued to interrupt another reporter from The Associated Press. The rude outburst came from ABC’s Jon Karl who shouted out a question while Sean Spicer was in the middle of answering another reporter’s question.

Of course, Feinstein doesn’t really care about the Constitution. But she’s not alone. As I’ve written many times, politicians — with only a handful of exceptions — do not care about the Constitution and generally see it as an impediment to their objective. What she truly finds “troubling” is that it impedes — in whatever small sense — her from her objective to steal guns from Americans or enslave them in other ways.

Today the House will finally and at last vote on a bill to repeal (sort of) and replace (ugh) Obamacare. Dubbed Trumpcare or Ryancare, depending on whether or not you’re trying to help Donald Trump pretend he has nothing to do with it, the American Health Care Act vote will not be the final say as legislation still has to get through the Senate … an iffy proposition.

Today, March 23rd 2017, WikiLeaks releases Vault 7 "Dark Matter", which contains documentation for several CIA projects that infect Apple Mac Computer firmware (meaning the infection persists even if the operating system is re-installed) developed by the CIA's Embedded Development Branch (EDB). These documents explain the techniques used by CIA to gain 'persistence' on Apple Mac devices, including Macs and iPhones and demonstrate their use of EFI/UEFI and firmware malware.

Among others, these documents reveal the "Sonic Screwdriver" project which, as explained by the CIA, is a "mechanism for executing code on peripheral devices while a Mac laptop or desktop is booting" allowing an attacker to boot its attack software for example from a USB stick "even when a firmware password is enabled". The CIA's "Sonic Screwdriver" infector is stored on the modified firmware of an Apple Thunderbolt-to-Ethernet adapter.

Go here for the full text of my description, with images as closely resembling as I could find.

From the conclusion:

Notably, there were two types of nuclear scenarios with which The Powers That Be in my dreamworld had not seen fit to torture me, and with which I therefore had not had the misfortune to have had any familiarity. One of them is the aftereffects, environmental and political, of a modern-day First Strike by the United States....

It’s been a tough week for James Comey. He took pot shots from both Republicans and Democrats on Tuesday during his hearing. One of Comey’s critics was of course the honorable Trey Gowdy who was very upset that James Comey hadn’t solved the string of leaks that have been a huge problem for the Trump administration.

Dr. Tom Woods reports in his latest newsletter: "My appearance at the Yale Political Union is coming up soon. The topic for debate and discussion is secession. The event is free and open to the public. April 4, 7:30pm, Sudler Auditorium, William L. Harkness Building, 100 Wall Street, New Haven." He adds "Of course, the Constitution is not a "living, breathing" document, as I explain in my book 33 Questions About American History You're Not Supposed to Ask. That's precisely what the American Revolution was fought against. The British constitution was in effect whatever Parliament said it was. Americans weren't about to make the same mistake."

As the battle to replace Obamacare moves into its next phase, President Donald Trump enjoys a wide advantage in trust over House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wisc. A new CBS poll shows that among Republican voters surveyed, 59 percent trust Trump to do the right thing for the country. Only 7 percent gave that same rating to Ryan.

Rep. Louie Gohmert is pushing his party’s leadership to hold a caucus briefing on the U.S. Capitol Police criminal investigation into the five congressional Information Technology (IT) workers suspected of stealing congressional data.

Several top officials from the Obama administration woke up and decided to join Twitter now that they were out of jobs. It must have been like turning on the TV news for the first time after coming out of an eight-year-long coma because none of them can seem to grasp the concept that they were the ones actually in charge of a world seemingly spinning out of control.

A government watchdog group Tuesday demanded that the nation's intelligence czar and State Department determine if former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's secret email server damaged national security.

The city of Philadelphia cancelled its largest Cinco de Mayo event, El Carnaval de Puebla, because current conditions in the country supposedly weren’t favorable toward immigrants, especially illegal ones living in fear of a nationwide crackdown spurred by President Donald Trump.

It is yet another reminder that the federal government’s various law enforcement agencies continue to conduct warrantless mass surveillance on millions of innocent Americans. If Trump’s irritated by having his personal privacy violated, perhaps he should lead a charger to reinvigorate the nation’s 4th Amendment.

America’s healthcare system will only be fixed when a critical mass of people rejects the philosophical and economic fallacies justifying government-run healthcare. Those of us who know the truth must continue to work to spread the ideas of and grow the movement for, liberty.

There should not be gun-control laws anymore than there should be shovel-control laws or broom-control laws. Guns should be treated as commodities just like bananas, apples, and oranges. It is what you do with a gun that is important, not that you buy, sell, or own one.

If the investigation of Russiagate turns up no link between Trump and the pilfered emails, Democrats will have egg all over their faces. And the Democratic base will have to face a painful truth. Vladimir Putin did not steal this election. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama lost it. Donald Trump won it fair and square. He is not an “illegitimate” president. There will be no impeachment. They were deceived and misled by their own leaders and media. They bought into a Big Lie.

Facebook has expanded the roll-out of its fact-checker tool to combat ‘fake news’ as more users report the appearance of the ‘disputed’ message alert. The pop-up lets users know when a story’s accuracy is questionable before they share it.

You’re probably going to die with some debt to your name. Most people do. In fact, 73% of consumers had outstanding debt when they were reported as dead, according to December 2016 data provided to Credit.com by credit bureau Experian. Those consumers carried an average total balance of $61,554, including mortgage debt. Without home loans, the average balance was $12,875.

Ranking Member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and F.B.I. Director James Comey colluded during the intelligence hearing on Capitol Hill Monday, according to an online report.

George Orwell once said that “in a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” Since he offered those words decades ago, we have seen deceit become a pervasive and global problem, where the general public really has no clue what is happening around the world. The truth is, we live in a world of secrecy, and many prominent figures throughout history have been trying to tell us this for years. Even President Theodore Roosevelt warned us of the secret government, revealing that “behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government, owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.”

New York, NY — Eight-hundred families of 9/11 victims and 1,500 first responders, along with others who suffered as a result of the attacks, have filed a lawsuit against Saudi Arabia over its alleged complicity in the 2001 terror attacks, according to an exclusive report by local New York outlet Pix 11.

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer took Trump administration critics to task Monday, noting that they continue to push the discredited claim that Trump worked with the Russians while totally ignoring the clear connections between Clinton and Russian based companies.

A former official with the Democratic National Committee has worked throughout the last few months with a convicted domestic terrorist to gather and spread opposition research on President Donald Trump, according to a report by The Daily Caller.

Just days after U.S. Customs and Border Protection began posting bid guidelines for contractors interested in building the long promised Mexico border wall, three California Democrats are “fighting back” by proposing a bill that would force the state to drop pension investments in any company involved in the project.

Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Devin Nunes (R-CA) will deliver sensitive information to the President at the White House Wednesday afternoon, information the President desperately needs to vindicate his wiretap claims which he blasted out on Twitter several weeks ago.

Leftist attempts to attack American 2nd Amendment rights in recent years were a boon for the U.S. firearm industry. And as gun sales increased, leftists shrieked that incidences of accidental shootings were bound to explode. Not so…

Just days after FBI director James Comey shot down Trump’s allegations that his wires were tapped by president Obama, House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes has come out and told reporters that members of Trump’s transition team, and possible Trump himself, were under U.S. government surveillance following November’s presidential election.

A federal grand jury has returned a 23-count indictment against Philadelphia District Attorney Rufus Seth Williams, charging him with taking bribes amounting to tens of thousands of dollars from two wealthy business owners.

The charges were announced Tuesday by Acting New Jersey US Attorney William Fitzpatrick, who took over after the US Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania recused his office from the case.

The headline above is not my demand. It is my plea. Please, stop the presses, stop the propaganda, stop the lies. The mainstream news is giving me migraines. At the end of the day I know less than when I woke up in the morning. Obama versus Trump is being constructed as a story of good versus evil, light versus darkness, hope versus hopelessness. If the far left sell this lie, the Fourth Estate is more dangerous to America than Donald Trump could ever be.

The Trump administration is banning large electronics from being brought onto U.S.-bound flights from select airports in Africa and the Middle East over security concerns, the Homeland Security Department announced Tuesday.